As the battle over Ohio’s constitution heats up, canvassing and campaigning efforts reveal abortion is a key driving factor for activists on both sides of the issue.
On the pro-Issue 1 side, the Ohio Republican Party and local Republican parties held voting kickoff events across the state over the weekend, including in Columbus and Medina.
To the general public, the pro-Issue 1 campaign has been quiet, having yet to air any major television or social media advertising, while the campaign against it launched its first ads two weeks ago. On the anti-Issue 1 side, many of the weekend events were organized by local Democratic Parties and labor unions. David Brock, chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, said an Issue 1 canvas kickoff, organized by The North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor in Cleveland’s Kamm’s Corners neighborhood on the West Side, was well attended, rivaling the crowd for a similar event ahead of last year’s U.S. Senate race.
State Democrats followed a similar playbook in 2011, when they successful overturned an unpopular law limiting collective bargaining rights for government employees, and 2012, when they won the presidential and U.S. Senate races here. Greer said while it’s not the case for everyone, abortion definitely is on the minds of many people she encounters.
“It’s a giant government overreach in my opinion,” Schilling said. “It goes against normal conservative, limited government principles.” David Glass, the chairman of the Ross County Republican Party, went door to door, targeting reliable Republican voters in a lower middle-class neighborhood he said had begun to swing toward the GOP in recent years.But, he said Republicans are placing a greater emphasis on early voting than normal, since the August special election will mean that many voters may be on vacation.
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